Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deprived of ears; having the ears cropped.
- Destitute of ears; not eared; exauriculate: as, the earless seals.
- Specifically, in ornithology, having no plumicorns: as, the earless owls.
- Not giving ear; not inclined to hear or listen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lacking
ears .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking external ears
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Examples
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That's difficult to do without a living mosasaur, especially since there's a problematic critter called the earless monitor lizard
Wired Top Stories Brian Switek 2011
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That's difficult to do without a living mosasaur, especially since there's a problematic critter called the earless monitor lizard
Wired Top Stories Brian Switek 2011
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Maxine Cooper, environment commissioner for the government of the Australian Capital Territory, says humans aren't theonly ones at risk - the kangaroos are destroying the grassy native habitat of endangered species such as a six-inch-long lizard known as the earless dragon.
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Maxine Cooper, environment commissioner for the government of the Australian Capital Territory, says humans aren't the only ones at risk - the kangaroos are destroying the grassy native habitat of endangered species such as a six-inch-long lizard known as the earless dragon.
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Maxine Cooper, environment commissioner for the government of the Australian Capital Territory, says humans aren't the only ones at risk - the kangaroos are destroying the grassy native habitat of endangered species such as a six-inch-long lizard known as the earless dragon.
unknown title 2009
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Maxine Cooper, environment commissioner for the government of the Australian Capital Territory, says humans aren't the only ones at risk - the kangaroos are destroying the grassy native habitat of endangered species such as a six-inch-long lizard known as the earless dragon.
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Maxine Cooper, environment commissioner for the government of the Australian Capital Territory, says humans aren't the only ones at risk - the kangaroos are destroying the grassy native habitat of endangered species such as a six-inch-long lizard known as the earless dragon.
unknown title 2009
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Maxine Cooper, environment commissioner for the government of the Australian Capital Territory, said humans aren't the only ones at risk - the kangaroos are destroying the grassy native habitat of endangered species such as a six-inch-long lizard known as the earless dragon.
unknown title 2009
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There are many species of 'earless' frogs that have secondarily lost their middle ear, and they have reduced sensitivity at higher frequencies compared to 'normal' frogs, but essentially unchanged sensitivity at lower frequencies.
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It led him, too, to attack some worthy people, and among others the 'earless'
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Leslie Stephen 1868
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